{"id":58296,"date":"2024-07-22T07:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T05:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=58296"},"modified":"2024-07-16T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:20:45","slug":"nostalgic-archiving-productive-or-monstruous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/nostalgic-archiving-productive-or-monstruous\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgic Archiving: Productive or Monstruous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 90s of the last century, the spread of memory practices in art and literature has been enormous. These memory practices manifest themselves around issues such as trauma, war, Holocaust and other genocides, migration, but also in the increasing use of archival organisations combined with media and genres like photography, documentary film and video. A real archival fever has come about. The primary question raised by this flourishing of memory and archival practices, which intend to reanimate lost or invisible knowledge and memories, is if we should see this as a celebration of memory, as a <em>fin de si\u00e8cle,<\/em> and in the meantime un <em>debut de si\u00e8cle<\/em>, as an expression of the desire to look backwards, or, in contrast, as a symptom of a severe memory crisis or a fear of forgetting lost origins and traditions? \u00a0 The distinction I just made resonates with the one Svetlana Boym made in her famous book <em>The Future of Nostalgia<\/em> from 2001, namely the one between restorative nostalgia and reflective nostalgia.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Svetlana Boym, <em>The Future of Nostalgia<\/em> (New York: Basic, 2001)<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script> I will refer several times to Boym because her work does still offer the most thorough and relevant understanding of nostalgia I know of. Boym defines nostalgia as a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one\u2019s own phantasy. This dual side of nostalgia is already present in the two Greek roots in the word nostalgia: \u03bd\u03cc\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2,\u00a0<em>n\u00f3stos<\/em>\u00a0(\u201creturn home\u201d) and \u1f04\u03bb\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2<em>, \u00e1lgos\u00a0<\/em>(\u201clonging\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Restorative nostalgia stresses\u00a0<em>n\u00f3stos<\/em>\u00a0(home) and attempts a\u00a0transhistorical reconstruction of the lost home. Reflective nostalgia thrives in\u00a0<em>\u00e1lgos<\/em>, the longing itself, and delays the homecoming\u2014wistfully, ironically, desperately. It is rather obvious that in Boym\u2019s typology restorative nostalgia is negative and the reflective one is positive.<\/p>\n<p>Restorative nostalgia expresses itself in terms of the truth about origins and tradition. It is deadly serious and often fanatic. It deploys two different narrative plots: the first one is the return to origins, the second one of conspiracy as an explanation for the present. The pursuit of lost origins and traditions can be seen as a definition of the extreme right in Israel, the Netherlands, France, the United States and probably all over the world. They refuse contemporary developments like globalization and migration and long back to an imagined past in which these phenomena did not yet exist. Although migration is not a recent phenomenon because it has been going on since the rise of capitalism and colonization, the extreme right ignores this history and longs back to pre-modern times when people were still located in their own small, homogeneous, and quiet community.<\/p>\n<p>It makes little sense to understand the rise of the extreme right as the cause of the recent archival fever, or the other way around, that archival fever has resulted in the rise of the extreme right. This kind of simplistic causality defines conspiracy theory that the extreme right often makes use of. Let\u2019s try to understand the negative, conservative role of restorative nostalgia and how it defines certain archival practices.\u00a0 Allow me to quote Svetlana Boym once more in order to better understand the politics of the extreme right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>nostalgia is not always retrospective; it can be prospective as well. The fantasies of the past determined by the needs of the present have a direct impact on the realities of the future. Considering the future makes us take responsibility for our nostalgic tales. Unlike melancholia, which confines itself to the planes of individual consciousness, nostalgia is about the relationship between individual biography and the biography of groups or nations, between personal and collective memory. While futuristic utopias might be out of fashion, nostalgia itself has a utopian dimension, only it is no longer directed toward the future. Sometimes it is not directed toward the past either, but rather sideways. The nostalgic feels stifled within the conventional confines of time and space.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Svetlana Boym, \u201cNostalgia and Its Discontents, in: <em>Atlas of Transformation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/monumenttotransformation.org\/atlas-of-transformation\/html\/n\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym (monumenttotransformation.org)<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the 1990s my scholarly publications and teaching mainly focused on Holocaust trauma and memory. I was even accepted in the community of Holocaust studies as an \u201chonorary Jew\u201d. However, more and more I felt uncomfortable by how the memory of the Holocaust was used by right-wing politicians in Israel for imagining a future Israel.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_3');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_3');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_3\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_3\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">See e.g. my books Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory (Stanford UP 1997), and Art in Mind. How Contemporary Images Shape Thought. (University of Chicago&nbsp;&#x2026; <span class=\"footnote_tooltip_continue\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_3');\">Continue reading<\/span><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script> So, in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century I decided not to contribute anymore to the field of Holocaust studies. And now in 2023 and 2024 my bad dreams of a monstrous future have been realized with the archival, genocidal practices that take place in Gaza and on the West bank.<\/p>\n<p>As I have argued in my book <em>Caught By History<\/em>, modern genocides like the Holocaust are archival. They kill people not arbitrarily but on the basis of fixed, usually ethnic or religious categories that are also used in other archival organisations. And in the Holocaust not only human beings were archived (Jews, Romas, homosexuals) but also their belongings; the storages of Auschwitz euphemistically called \u201cCanada\u201d show the frightening results of this archival practice. The role of restorative nostalgia in this archival practice is, again, well described by Boym:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The danger of nostalgia is that it tends to confuse the actual home with an imaginary one. In extreme cases, it can create a phantom homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflected nostalgia breeds monsters. Yet the sentiment itself, the mourning of displacement and temporal irreversibility, is at the very core of the modern condition.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_4');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_4');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_4\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_4\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Svetlana Boym, \u201cNostalgia and Its Discontents, in: <em>Atlas of Transformation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/monumenttotransformation.org\/atlas-of-transformation\/html\/n\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html\">Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym (monumenttotransformation.org)<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_4').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_4', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The current genocide in Gaza is the result of restorative nostalgia, the longing back to a collective memory of the time when only Jews lived in Palestine. This was never really the case, because that area was populated by several ethnic communities. It is a phantom homeland. But when we take the fiction (lied truth) of the Old Testament as historical text, one can begin using it as an origin for restorative nostalgia. Because when Palestine is for the Jews an imaginary home, although it\u00a0 \u201cnever really existed\u201d to use Boym\u2019s words once more, it is more important than ever to understand the productive role of reflective nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>Boym considers nostalgia as a side product of modernity. This does not make modernity as such problematic because there is also a tradition of critical reflection on the modern condition that incorporates nostalgia. She calls it \u201coff-modern.\u201d The adverb \u201coff\u201d confuses our sense of direction; \u201cit makes us explore side-shadows and back alleys rather than the straight road of progress; it allows us to take a\u00a0detour from the deterministic narrative of 20th\u2011century history. Off-modernism offered a\u00a0critique of both the modern fascination with newness, and the no less modern reinvention of tradition<u>. <\/u>In the off-modern tradition, reflection and longing, estrangement and affection go together.\u201d<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_5');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_5');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_5\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_5\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Svetlana Boym, \u201cNostalgia and Its Discontents, in: <em>Atlas of Transformation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/monumenttotransformation.org\/atlas-of-transformation\/html\/n\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym (monumenttotransformation.org)<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_5').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_5', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/tema-del-mes\/productive-nostalgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nostalgia<\/a>, as a side-product of modernity, is paradoxical because it contains reflective as well as restorative nostalgia. This means that the universality of longing can make us more empathetic toward fellow humans,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>yet the moment we try to repair \u201clonging\u201d with a\u00a0particular \u201cbelonging\u201d\u2014the apprehension of loss with a\u00a0rediscovery of identity and especially of a\u00a0national community and a\u00a0unique and pure homeland\u2014 we often part ways and put an end to mutual understanding.\u00a0<em>\u00c1lgos<\/em>\u00a0(longing) is what we share, yet\u00a0<em>n\u00f3stos<\/em> (the return home) is what divides us.<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_6');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_58296_1('footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_6');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_6\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_6\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Svetlana Boym, \u201cNostalgia and Its Discontents, in: <em>Atlas of Transformation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/monumenttotransformation.org\/atlas-of-transformation\/html\/n\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym (monumenttotransformation.org)<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_58296_1_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind of conclusions can we draw now about nostalgic archiving? The answer will depend on how archives are being made or used, what kind of archival practice is being performed. The archive can be used for restorative nostalgic goals; the result of such a practice can be monstrous as the present situation in Palestine demonstrates. But the same archive can also be used reflectively; then we understand the longing without its object: a unique, pure homeland. Only when Israel and its allies start doing that can we begin imagining a possible future for Israel and Palestine.<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58292\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58292\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58292 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Archivo-nostalgico-Verwoest-Huis-Gaza07.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Archivo-nostalgico-Verwoest-Huis-Gaza07.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Archivo-nostalgico-Verwoest-Huis-Gaza07-436x400.jpeg 436w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Archivo-nostalgico-Verwoest-Huis-Gaza07-768x704.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-58292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover image and above: Marjan Teeuwen. From the series &#8220;Destroyed House Gaza&#8221; (2017)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_58296_1();\">&#x202F;<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_58296_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_58296_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_58296_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Svetlana Boym, <em>The Future of Nostalgia<\/em> (New York: Basic, 2001)<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi\" ><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_2');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_5\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_5');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>5,<\/a> <a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_6\" class=\"footnote_backlink\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_6');\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>6<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Svetlana Boym, \u201cNostalgia and Its Discontents, in: <em>Atlas of Transformation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/monumenttotransformation.org\/atlas-of-transformation\/html\/n\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym (monumenttotransformation.org)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_3');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_3\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>3<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">See e.g. my books <em>Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory<\/em> (Stanford UP 1997), and <em>Art in Mind. How Contemporary Images Shape Thought<\/em>. (University of Chicago Press, 2005)<\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_58296_1_4');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_58296_1_4\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>4<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Svetlana Boym, \u201cNostalgia and Its Discontents, in: <em>Atlas of Transformation<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/monumenttotransformation.org\/atlas-of-transformation\/html\/n\/nostalgia\/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html\">Nostalgia | Svetlana Boym (monumenttotransformation.org)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_58296_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_58296_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_58296_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_58296_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_58296_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_58296_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_58296_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_58296_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_58296_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_58296_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_58296_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_58296_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_58296_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_58296_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 90s of the last century, the spread of memory practices in art and literature has been enormous. 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